“…This model estimates annual average run-off at the pixel, sub-basin, and basin level, considering variables such as precipitation, reference evapotranspiration, land use and cover, soil depth, and available water content for plants. The InVEST water yield model has been widely used throughout the world with satisfactory results in China (e.g., Bai et al, 2012;Geng et al, 2015;Lang et al, 2017;Li et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2012), Thailand ( e.g., Arunyawat and Shrestha, 2016), Spain ( e.g., Bangash et al, 2013), Argentina ( e.g., Gaspari et al, 2015;Izquierdo and Clark, 2012), and several countries in northeastern Africa ( e.g., Belete et al, 2018). Other studies such as those of Sánchez-Canales et al (2012), Hamel and Guswa (2015), and Redhead et al Hydrol.…”